He was known as the editor of the first Polish medical journal and for his work on catarrh.

[2] He married Maria Theresia Kornély (1765–1827), daughter of Joseph Kornély (né Nathan Adelkind),[3] a wealthy Polish-Hungarian Court Jew converted to Catholicism.

[3] Kornély was a Jewish merchant, originally from Poland, established in Unvar, Hungary.

Baptized, he takes the name of Joseph Kornély, in memory of an illustrious ancestor, Cornelius Adelkind, a 16th century Venetian printer and publisher.

[4][5] They had two daughters: This article about a German person in the field of medicine is a stub.